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TIL the price of the original iPod was $399, so expensive that people said iPod stood for “idiot’s Price Our Devices”.

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64LX TIL that at the end of WWI, Germany had to pay reparations of 132 billion gold marks. The reparations were not fully paid until 2010, marking the official end of the war.
1aMVd TIL about the Glory Window, one of the largest horizontally mounted stained-glass pieces in the world
B79b TIL that there is an Austrian town formerly called Fucking that changed its name to Fugging because English speakers kept prank-calling the town. Now there are two towns called Fugging.
yve8 TIL Benjamin Franklin came up with 220 ways to say “he’s drunk”. Some are hilarious.
78gNZ TIL that (as of 2022) 55.33% of Earth is Asian